West Virginia · Current officeholder
Ray Canterbury
Republican West Virginia House, District 47
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Sponsored legislation
99 bills in the current data (19 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 5089 | Relating to public school acceptance of student transcripts or other credentials | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 29, 2026 |
| HB 4002 | Establishing the West Virginia Collaboratory | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | April 2, 2026 |
| HB 4012 | Relating to reducing the regulatory burden on utility companies when constructing and maintaining electric power generation and transmission facilities within this state | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | March 14, 2026 |
| HJR 42 | Homestead exemption | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | March 13, 2026 |
| HB 5687 | Relating to reducing the tax rate imposed on the gross value of metallurgical coal produced in this state | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | March 13, 2026 |
| HCR 13 | Honoring the life of Tony Whitlow | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | March 10, 2026 |
| HB 4419 | Requiring certain non-discretionary procedures be strictly complied with by the West Virginia Parkways Authority before tolls, rents, fees or charges may be increased | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 10, 2026 |
| HB 4477 | To give the Secretary of State authority to refer allegations of violations of election laws to West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Institute. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 4, 2026 |
| HR 20 | Memoralizing the life of the Honorable Larry D. Kump; dedicated public servant, principled legislator, and devoted family man. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 2, 2026 |
| HR 19 | Urging Department of Administration to maintain trees on grounds to prevent damage to persons or property | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 26, 2026 |
| HCR 21 | Study resolution study the feasibility of providing property tax relief to primary residence when investments increase a county property tax base | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 19, 2026 |
| HB 5675 | WV Reshoring Manufacturing Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| HB 5191 | To place rumble strips on all double-yellow lined roads and highways. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 17, 2026 |
| HR 14 | Honoring the life and public service of the Honorable Timothy P. Armstead. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 16, 2026 |
| HB 5573 | Rural Medical Residency Program concentrating on obstetrics and gynecology for rural hospitals, can be funded from the Rural Health Inititive or other sources funded by the legislature. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 16, 2026 |
| HB 4426 | Ensure State Road Construction Account funds are in addition to general highways funds provided to the DOT districts | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 12, 2026 |
| HB 5431 | Relating generally to bonded indebtedness of the State of West Virginia | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 11, 2026 |
| HB 5426 | To add the Bradford Peat Pear (Pyrus calleryana) to the noxious weeds list | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 10, 2026 |
| HB 5320 | Welcome Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 9, 2026 |
| HB 5179 | Relating to auctioneers | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 6, 2026 |
| HR 9 | Honoring the life and public service of the Honorable Douglas John Skaff Jr. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 5, 2026 |
| HR 11 | Resolution celebrating 250th Anniversary of the founding of the United States and 100th Anniversary of Interstate System | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 5200 | Creating Office of entrepreneurship | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 5, 2026 |
| HB 5194 | To ban calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5193 | To eliminate adverse possession from the state code of West Virginia | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5192 | School funding calculations should be the last three-year running average or the current enrollment, whichever is highest | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5190 | Increase conservation funding by $300,000, with the increase only to be allocated based on the head count of cattle and/or large livestock | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5189 | Relating to the use of technology in child abuse and neglect investigations | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5180 | When schools have events the school needs to sell tickets at the gate as well as online and accept cash | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5177 | Sales tax rebate for qualifying materials used in the construction of modest homes of 1 600 square feet or less | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HB 5160 | Prohibition of geoengineering | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| HR 8 | Designate June as fidelity month | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| HR 7 | Recognizing the seriousness of the National Debt and its threat to National Security | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| HB 5098 | Creation of the MOBILE ID. | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| HB 5097 | Require hospitals with no ASL interpreter on staff provide technology for hearing or speech impaired patients to communicate | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 3, 2026 |
| HB 5020 | To prohibit a convicted felons of sexual assault, or abuse of juveniles on public school property | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 5019 | Relating to requirements for deputy sheriffs | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 2, 2026 |
| HB 4431 | Requiring the approval of the Legislature and the Governor before additional bonds may be issued by the Parkways Authority | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2026 |
| HB 4430 | Eliminating the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2025 | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 30, 2026 |
| HB 4428 | Requiring 50 percent of all reappropriated revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 29, 2026 |
| HB 4427 | Relating to “unencumbered” special revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue under certain circumstances | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 29, 2026 |
| HB 4901 | Modifying the Occupational Pneumoconiois award categories for Worker’s Compensation | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2026 |
| HB 4815 | Allow community health center to provide sign-on bonus | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 26, 2026 |
| HB 4813 | Exempting from the sales tax all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles used as farm equipment | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 26, 2026 |
| HB 4585 | Relating to the Volunteer Firefighter Tax Credit Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 20, 2026 |
| HB 4583 | Victims of Communism Day | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 20, 2026 |
| HB 4499 | Relating to eminent domain compensation | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 19, 2026 |
| HB 4480 | Relating to Access Management and Entrances to State Highways | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 16, 2026 |
| HB 4479 | Timber Innovation and Manufacturing Boost for Economic Revitalization Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 16, 2026 |
| HB 4475 | Disaster Recovery Acceleration Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 16, 2026 |
| HB 4376 | Say No to Good Old Boy Governance | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 15, 2026 |
| HJR 11 | Amending the Homestead Exemption of the Constitution | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 14, 2026 |
| HB 2867 | Relating to Small Estates | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 30, 2025 |
| HB 2678 | Relating to school zones of public or private schools | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 30, 2025 |
| HCR 86 | U. S. Army PFC Robert F. Mann Memorial Bridge | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 12, 2025 |
| HCR 56 | Tom Bill Dudley Memorial Bridge | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 12, 2025 |
| HCR 28 | Frank Lee Maddy Memorial Road | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 12, 2025 |
| HB 3520 | Expiring funds to the surplus balance in the State Fund, General Revenue, Office of Energy | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 12, 2025 |
| HCR 99 | Resolution to study policies aimed at preventing financial fraud and scams | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HCR 96 | Urging West Virginia’s members of Congress to ask the President not to cut funding for the Local Food in Schools and Child Care nutrition | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 3505 | Relating to insurance | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 3519 | Expiring funds to the unappropriated surplus balance of the State Fund, General Revenue | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 7, 2025 |
| HCR 88 | Honoring First Responders Honor Board’s Medal of Valor Nominees | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 4, 2025 |
| HB 3013 | Relating to open captioning for motion pictures | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 2, 2025 |
| HCR 78 | Urging the Commissioner of Highways to prioritize completion of I-73, the King Coal Highway | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | April 1, 2025 |
| HCR 82 | U.S. Army PFC Paul Ralph Bittinger Sr. Memorial Bridge | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 29, 2025 |
| HCR 55 | Vance Brothers Six Military Veterans Highway | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 29, 2025 |
| HR 12 | Urging West Virginia’s members of Congress to ask the President not to cut funding for the Local Food an Schools and Child Care nutrition | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 26, 2025 |
| HB 2646 | To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 26, 2025 |
| HCR 72 | Recognizing Black Lung Awareness Month. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | March 25, 2025 |
| HB 3072 | Creating Super two highways in West Virginia | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 21, 2025 |
| HB 3193 | Failure to pay the required contribution and interest payment for any police officer or firefighter who transferred from the Public Employees Retirement System to the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 3183 | Personally identifiable information of a member, retirant, beneficiary or alternate payee of a retirement system administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board being confidential and exempt from disclosure | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 3180 | Federal Compliance for public employee retirement status | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 2019 | To waive the one-time $10 fee for a Veterans license plate to any first-time applicants who have an Honorable Discharge from any branch of the United States Military | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 18, 2025 |
| HB 3451 | Relating to taxation | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 17, 2025 |
| HB 3221 | Burial Equity Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 7, 2025 |
| HB 3207 | Prohibition of geoengineering | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 6, 2025 |
| HB 2542 | Requiring child protective services (“CPS”) workers to record, via audio, all interactions during CPS visits. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 6, 2025 |
| HB 2681 | Require all students to be taught how to properly handle, fold, treat, honor, display, and retire the American flag | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2025 |
| HCR 49 | Resolution relating to use of industrial sites and the potential impacts on downstream facilities | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | March 4, 2025 |
| HB 3151 | The Closed Captioning Act | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2025 |
| HB 3127 | To fund the Deputy Sheriff’s Retirement Fund from the DMV in the form of a 50-cent payment from every registration sold/renewed in the state | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2025 |
| HB 3056 | Relating generally to the state fire marshal | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 2727 | Require at least one person of the WVU Board of Governors and of the West Virginia State University with a background in agriculture or agricultural field | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |
| HB 2970 | Relating to requiring certain information with an absentee ballot | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| HB 2969 | Increasing Homestead Exemption | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 25, 2025 |
| HB 2933 | To set the salary of the State Superintendent of Schools | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HB 2929 | To ban calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HB 2924 | To eliminate adverse possession from the state code of West Virginia | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HB 2923 | To place rumble strips on all double-yellow lined roads and highways. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HB 2862 | Exempting ambulances from tolls | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 24, 2025 |
| HB 2682 | Modifying the Occupational Pneumoconiois award categories for Worker’s Compensation | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| HB 2665 | Requiring 50 percent of all reappropriated revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| HB 2663 | Relating to “unencumbered” special revenue accounts to be surrendered to general revenue under certain circumstances | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| HB 2649 | Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 20, 2025 |
| HB 2541 | Provisions for election observers during any election and at any voting or ballot-reviewing and ballot-counting location within West Virginia | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2025 |
| HB 2530 | To allow for the deportation of illegal aliens to sanctuary city locations across the country. | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2025 |
| HB 2529 | Prohibit the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination as a prerequisite for any state funded program or activity | Co-sponsor | In committee | February 18, 2025 |